The relationship between World Heritage Sites and school trips in Japan

Jimura, T
(2012)
The relationship between World Heritage Sites and school trips in Japan.
In:
Heritage 2012: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development
.
pp. 1611-1620.
(Heritage 2012: Heritage and Sustainable Development, 19–22 June 2012, Porto, Portugal).

Abstract

This paper investigates the involvement of WHSs in school trips in Japan. Japan has 16 WHSs and some of them have been visited well by school trips. “Shuugaku ryokou” is a unique concept to Japanese school trips. It aims to learn something significant as human beings and contains at least one night stay. The research was conducted by the review of the past relat-ed studies, examination of the websites of WHSs and their related agencies, and the visits to WHSs. The research shows that several cultural WHSs have been established as school trip des-tinations and the information about their history and value are available at their websites and/or on site. Most of them; however, are not especially for school trips and shuugaku ryokou. More-over, not WHSs but tourist association, prefectural government or judicial foundation takes a leading role in the provision of the resources and activities especially for shuugaku ryokou.

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Additional Information:

This is the accepted version of an article published at: http://heritage.greenlines-institute.org/en/heritage-2012 Jimura, T. The relationship between World Heritage Sites and school trips in Japan. Heritage 2012 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development.